Sunday, June 1, 2008

Wash Post: We're winning

More bad news for Barack Obama and defeatist left: The Washington Post, in a strongly worded editorial this morning, notes that we are on the verge of victory in Iraq.

While Washington's attention has been fixed elsewhere, military analysts have watched with astonishment as the Iraqi government and army have gained control for the first time of the port city of Basra and the sprawling Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, routing the Shiite militias that have ruled them for years and sending key militants scurrying to Iran. At the same time, Iraqi and U.S. forces have pushed forward with a long-promised offensive in Mosul, the last urban refuge of al-Qaeda. So many of its leaders have now been captured or killed that U.S. Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, renowned for his cautious assessments, said that the terrorists have "never been closer to defeat than they are now."

What will Obama say now about his vote on the surge? If he had his way, al Qaeda would be controlling Iraq, not the Iraqis.